2.0 The Rock Cycle Describes How Rocks Change Over Time

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0602/es0602page02.cfm

Rock Cycle:


Rock Cycle interactive:
http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/types3.html



Rock Identification:



Lustre and Streak:


More Lustre:




Hardness Scale of Minerals:





Cleavage in Minerals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmZiXsB6UE


How to ID gold:



Sedimentary Rock ID:

http://facweb.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/geol101/labs/sediment/


more layers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpVYjtLaYpM

More layers:




how sedimentary rock is formed:

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/create/sediment.htm


Rock and Mineral Identification Interactives:

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES04/ES04.html

http://higheredbcs.wiley.com/legacy/college/strahler/0471417416/interactivities/flash/mineralogy/mineralogy.htm



Rock and Mineral Game:
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-games/rocks-game.php



Because Victoria was wondering how to test is a diamond is real:







Research Questions:

1) How do you pan for gold?


2) How are fossils formed?

get ready to be fossilized....just kidding - let's make a fossil cast



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhwdVbJeXfk